Principal Solution Architect

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Position Overview:

As a Principal Solution Architect, you will be a technical subject matter expert with experience in defining, automating, and integrating technical/functional Autodesk solutions that create competitive advantage for companies in the industry space. You’ll work closely with our customers’ leadership teams to architect and design innovative solutions with specifications that can be traced to business strategy and success metrics.

Employing industry standard methodologies and frameworks, you’ll lead a team to build solutions that improve our customer’s business processes, workflows, and lifecycle management with seamless integration into their enterprise systems. By educating customers on key architecture considerations, estimating effort and resources required, and advising on implementation decisions, you create a clear path to successfully develop, integrate, and deploy new solutions.

You will report to a manager who leads a team of Solution Architects. You will work closely with a team of Solution Architects collaborating to improve the teams’ capabilities and to ensure customer success. You will also work with a team of technical consultants who will implement our solutions.  You will be asked to work with sales teams helping to define strategies that will lead to better outcomes for Autodesk and for our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Define Software and IT System architecture by evaluating and translating customer business needs

• Define Solution architecture and/or validate customer’s architecture feasibility

• Creates a path to develop, integrate and deploy Autodesk solutions into enterprise

• Keeps abreast with technology trends (innovative and disruptive) affecting our customers

• Understand data pipelines to promote efficient enterprise data flow and ML and AI solutions

• Provides input to stakeholders for arriving at best possible solution

• Educates and highlights key architecture considerations to implement solution

• Gathers input on non-functional requirements for solution

• May act as liaison between customer IT and Business stakeholders within the scope of solution

• Estimates effort and resources required

• Helps customer establish enterprise architecture practices in their organizations enabling them define and realize their business goals

• Validates Autodesk API capabilities to be used in the solution

• Be effective voice of Autodesk solutions in various outlets such as conferences, whitepapers and blogs

• Contributes towards Customer’s Change Management framework and identifies division of labor

• Gathers and internalizes rich customer feedback, using it to generate innovative solutions that fill core or future needs.

• Acts as “Trusted Advisor” to the customer and guide them to success

• Works with project managers and project sponsors to provide enterprise solutions to specific business problems and issues across many domains

• Prepares and presents project documentation for the customer stakeholders

• Evaluates design approaches, makes architectural recommendations, and implements improvements to adoption strategies

• Present “point of view” on implementation roadmap to multiple types of stakeholders

• Develop “reference architectures” and promote re-use in implementing Autodesk technologies

• Lead and Mentor developers and 3rd party consultants

• Participate in code reviews to ensure new code conforms to highest standards

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Mechanical Engineering or similar field

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with relevant BS degree, or 8+ years with advanced degree

• Database Knowledge: In-depth understanding of database structure principles.

• Experience working on large scale, customer facing, web and cloud applications

• Strong .NET skills. Our language of choice on the server side is .NET

• Candidate have implemented applications in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google.

• Candidate has architected solutions to integrate workflow from traditional desktop to cloud applications

• Practical experience building or integrating web services

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of data pipelines, ETL processes, and data governance

• Experience with relational, No SQL, and graph databases

• Strong experience with Amazon Web Services OR Azure

• Experience in solu